1-DEX

I started painting in the mid-90s, and over time it grew into a passion that drove me to find out more about the history of graffiti. I practice all disciplines, tags, throw-ups, old school lettering, wildstyle, B-boy…, while also striving to develop my signature style by experimenting and playing around with the alphabet. A self-taught artist, I acquired my skills on the ground, learning how to draw in the dark, to work silently and let my pieces do the talking. I painted my first train in 2012 at a time when a lot of other people were also doing the same, so I had to find something that would make me stand out, and New York subway carriages in French train yards and stations were bound to get noticed!

108

In fifteen years, 108’s work has moved from traditional graffiti to abstract shapes in yellow, then black and finally multicolour, all of which have organic roots. The diaphanous, shadowy atmosphere that emanates from his paintings also shows through in his music, film, and sculpture.

2FLUI

Cyril Simon, aka 2Flui, was born in 1975 and grew up in the Paris area (Val d’Oise), where he still lives.

3TTMAN

From Lille (France) and now based in Spain, 3ttman blurs the boundaries between art and artisanry through the use of different “raw” materials: paint, concrete, papier maché, ceramics and clay. The spontaneous and highly colourful style of his creations is directly inspired by popular art, vernacular art, and his observations of the everyday changes that cities undergo.

4FAM

4FAM is a collective of three muralists from the Rhône-Alpes region in France. We met each other in our student days at EcohlCité. By combining our different experience and expertise, we unlocked a creative dynamism that allows us to work in a wide range of graphic fields. We like the diversity of our artistic creation projects: trompe-l’œil, illustrative murals, interior murals in offices, schools and kindergartens, and original activities during events.

ABYS

ABYS is a young, self-taught artist who is a member of the Osmoz-Colors and Nid d’Guêpes Posse collectives.

AIR1DUC

Steeped in the hip-hop culture, my work today is infused with the experience of 35 years painting the streets: the exploration and experimentation, graffiti’s inherent energy and speed, and its lettering are all integral parts. Depending on the series, my works contain elements from pop art, comic book characters, or 80s cartoons, and utilize a calligraphy or graffiti lettering style.

ALEX BERETTA

Street artist and world-class athlete. Currently represented by the Lyon-based art gallery Superposition, Alexandre is regarded as an emerging artist on the contemporary urban art scene. Despite his young age, he has already painted in 22 countries and continues to move closer to achieving his goal of painting a mural in every country in the world.

ALEX SENNA

Alex Senna is a Brazilian artist born in 1982 in Orlândia, São Paulo. He brings to his work a monochromatic reflection on life in a vision from the inside outwards. He creates a dialogue with a city and its inhabitants through creative productions in the urban space and his elegant use of shadows. With his mural paintings, which can be found in over 25 countries, Senna shares the innermost feelings of his characters with passers-by. His works are mostly in black and white, making his message clear and simple, and coming straight from the heart.

AMOSE

Amose studied illustration and graphic design in Belgium and during this period he reflected on the question of “what makes art art”. In 2003, he started to incorporate a tribal aesthetic into his work that he had seen in Brazilian graffiti paintings. For some his works are minimalist, for others they are boldly realist.

AMSTED

Amsted is a self-taught artist from Aix (France) born in 1982.

ANTHONY FERRERO

Anthony Ferrero started painting when he was 13 years old, honing his graffiti skills as a “vandal” before moving on to studio work in which he uses mixed techniques ranging from pastels to spray cans.

APOGE

Apogé produced graffiti works in the brownfield sites of eastern Paris for thirty years before moving away from the council estates he grew up on to his now adopted city of Clermont-Ferrand, where he has used his incredible creative energy to produce a great number of street paintings.

ARTMOR1

ARTMOR1 is a French artist born in Paris (France) in 1983. He grew up in the capital city surrounded by subway trains covered with graffiti writing, and streets filled with colourful designs created by artists like Jérôme Mesnager and Jef Aérosol who would make a lasting impression on him. He then moved to Nice and from 1998 started creating graffiti pieces under the pseudonyms of Snake and Sinsé. His travels to Berlin, London, Bristol, Amsterdam and Paris in 2017 inspired him to create his own stencil artwork on different mediums.

ASAZ ONE

Asaz_one is a muralist from the Grenoble region in France who is equally passionate about cultural sharing and exchanges with his studio models as he is with local communities from around the world when he paints their portraits. He has produced work in festivals in Kosovo, Chile, in his hometown at the Grenoble Street Art Festival, and has many more projects in the pipeline, including Pompei (Italy).

ASTRO

Astro started out in graffiti in 2000 in the northern suburbs of Paris. With a preference for lettering and wildstyle in his early days, this self-taught and passionate artist uses his know-how and expertise to create a form of urban art blending curves, calligraphy and dynamic shapes. Influenced by artists such as Hartung, Vasarely or Mucha, Astro has created his own signature style through his subtle use of shadow and light, the power of colours, and the perspective of depth.

AVYSE

Illustrator in his spare time, Avyse paints on cardboard a bestiary straight out of his imagination and urban inspirations. It features characters moving through settings at the crossroads of hip-hop and manga cultures.

AZOTE

Born in 1986 in St Etienne (France), this self-taught graffiti writer started sketching in his schoolbooks during the long hours of lessons. He began to take an interest in graffiti when the first specialist magazines on the subject were being published and with the advent of the internet. In 2003, he picked up a spray can for the first time at an introductory class in a leisure centre and hasn’t looked back since. Subsequent encounters with his peers in the various brownfield sites in and around St Etienne allowed him to hone his technique and he very quickly developed a preference for characters and backgrounds over lettering.

BABS

BABS grew up with the hip-hop culture and discovered graffiti at the age of 11. He painted his first subway train in 1992 and would go on to produce many quality works as a train writer. After spending over 15 years honing his letters on the Paris subway and railroad trains, he has since changed direction towards a more personal practice with an organic and mechanical structure in a cyberpunk/manga style.

BAULT

On both canvas and wall, Bault produces art that is instinctive, devoid of any preconceived ideas, and that offers up a unique and constantly evolving representation of the world. The artist has pursued this dynamic throughout his professional career, for example, by starting out as a graffiti artist in 1997 and working with video in parallel until 2011.

BEN CAILLOUS

I live in the south of France, in Villelongue-dels-Monts, where I have my studio.

BETON CITE

Benoit Carbonel (béton cité) is the emerging author and illustrator of the comic strip Cool Parano. It tells the story of Coin Coin, an emerging artist entirely devoted to his passion, graffiti, recounting his shaky start in the discipline up to his finest work on trains or subway walls. It follows the journey of this graffiti writer who paints in the shadows, constantly wavering between creative trance and fear of getting caught.

BLANK

I’m Blank, a self-taught artist, from Vichy (France). My work features on Such’Art, an art walk in Clermont-Ferrand, both as solo pieces and collaborative projects that were very pleasant experiences. Many aspects of this artistic world appeal to me: the mask, spray can, words, colour, and the idea of making something beautiful that wasn’t before, adding a bit of colour to our daily lives. Putting an idea on a wall and then letting it go, rather like dropping a seed. I like that art goes to people when people no longer go to museums. And resistance through art. Finally, education through street art. I am a mother of three an also a schoolteacher who introduces children to graffiti writing from the age of two. The relationship with the past, plants and the earth is also something that resonates with me.

BOM.K

Born in the Parisian suburbs, Bom.K fell into graffiti at the age of 17. Under the influence of the pioneers of the time, he initiated himself into the grammar of the movement on the walls, vacant lots, and trains of his neighborhood. In 1999, he founded the collective Da Mental Vaporz with Iso and began producing a more personal and intimate graffiti style. Padded isolation rooms, nightmarish concrete bars, gaunt B-boys with sinister expressions...